Concentration of Power

AI and Awareness AI and Culture Ethics and Trust in AI Freedom and Manipulation Inclusive Digital Democracy Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Public Authority SSH Researcher

Serious Game - Empower Your Digital Decisions

This section presents the KT4D serious game, an interactive tool to engage players with ethical dilemmas surrounding advanced knowledge technologies.

Effect of Technology:

Agency Bias Concentration of Power Culture Democracy Disinformation & Misinformation Inclusion/Exclusion Legitimacy Polarisation

Democratic values:

Accountability Fairness Participation Pluralism Trust

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Algorithmic Accountability Critical Digital Citizenship Freedom and Manipulation Personal Data and User Profiling Citizen Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher

Recommendation Algorithms Explainer

The Recommendation Algorithms explainer aims to demonstrate how algorithms work on social media platforms. It allows the users to simulate their experience on a social media platform, where their choices shape a personalised feed.

Effect of Technology:

Autonomy Bias Concentration of Power Culture Epistemic effect Inclusion/Exclusion Individuals Legitimacy Opacity Polarisation Society Surveillance

Democratic values:

Accountability Fairness Pluralism Transparency Trust

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AI and Culture Citizen Computer Scientist Public Authority SSH Researcher

Module C: Historical perspective – Free Will and Autonomy

This section considers how people’s autonomy and free will are hindered or supported by past and present KTs. By focusing on the structural level, we will examine systemic issues such as monopolies over KTs, data extraction and colonialism, labour, and political participation.

Effect of Technology:

Agency Autonomy Concentration of Power Culture Individuals

Democratic values:

Accountability Participation Pluralism

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Personal Data and User Profiling Civil Society & Democracy Practitioner Industry Public Authority SSH Researcher

How should tech be regulated?

Companies have significant influence over public discourse in online platforms, necessitating that the algorithms that shape these online platforms should be regulated and constrained to sufficiently consider the public interest (Susskind, 2018: 350). Perhaps the easiest way of returning control of a public good to the people would be nationalisation of large AI companies and platforms. However, this also affords the government considerable power, to tailor public discourse to their interests (Susskind, 2018: 350).

Effect of Technology:

Concentration of Power Legitimacy

Democratic values:

Accountability Equality Fairness Trust

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